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Scritti in onore di Pellegrino Capaldo

2014

La qualità dei servizi è stata riconosciuta come un rilevante aspetto caratterizzante la performance dell’azienda pubblica, analogamente alla capacità di operare secondo criteri di efficienza e nel rispetto dei vincoli di bilancio. Sebbene sia possibile riscontrare alcuni significativi casi di adozione di politiche di customer satisfaction nelle amministrazioni pubbliche italiane, a tutt’oggi il tema presenta significative criticità, specialmente in ordine agli aspetti metodologici e agli strumenti operativi che consentano di integrare dette politiche nel sistema di programmazione e controllo delle aziende che erogano tali servizi. Il presente lavoro adotta una diversa prospettiva di analis…

Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendaleQuality in delivering public services has been recognised as a major issue challenging performance in the public sector as well as the ability to operate effectively and within budget constraints. Empirical findings shown by the literature demonstrate that concrete efforts have been produced towards the evaluation and improvement of satisfaction levels of citizens and other Public Administration’s ‘customers’. However still today this issue portrays many unresolved criticalities particularly concerning the methodological approaches and operative tools to adopt in order to integrate ‘customer satisfaction’ programs with the wider organisational control system in each public administration. This paper adopts a non-conventional view of the ‘customer satisfaction’ concept. This is currently meant as a matter of social reporting or even statistical analysis based on the users’ perceptions on the level of provided services by a given (front office) unit in the public sector. Here an inter-institutional perspective is adopted with a view to map the overall value chain leading to the final product delivered to citizens or the community. Inside this chain tracking the underlying administrative products delivered by back-office units to their ‘internal clients’ in the public administration is recommended as a fundamental step to understand how to improve performance in satisfying citizens’ needs. This should also require a proper link between the administrative units’ goals and performance measures to the desired efficiency and effectiveness of processes leading to the attainment of administrative products providing the basis of the final services delivered to the private sector. Based on first empirical findings from field analysis in the Italian context the paper aims to outline an approach which could assist both politicians and managers to better assess and improve performance according to a customer satisfaction perspective.
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FROM SLOPE MORPHOMETRY TO MORPHOGENETIC PROCESSES: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH OF FIELD SURVEY, GIS MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS IN ITALIAN BADLAN…

2016

Calanchi (singular calanco) represent a typical example of badlands in the Italian peninsula, which rapidly evolve on clayey terrains such as the widespread Pliocene-Pleistocene marine clays. The present study aimed at investigating the role of the slope morphometry on the typology and distribution of morphogenetic processes in a calanchi area located in southern Italy. The research included detailed geomorphological surveying, morphometric and statistical analysis. The study area was first subdivided into individual hydrographic units (HUs), for which field survey allowed to identify the dominant denudation processes, their intensity and the distribution of the associated landforms (pipes,…

Slope MorphometrySettore GEO/04 - Geografia Fisica E GeomorfologiaCalanchi and BadlandMorphogenetic ProcesseSicily (Italy)Statistical Analysi
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An examination of parents’ and preschool workers’ perspectives on bullying in preschool

2016

ABSTRACTParents (n = 141) and preschool workers (n = 81) completed a survey regarding their perspectives towards: (a) the existence of bullying in preschool, (b) interpretations of bullying, (c) the roles of bullies and victims, and (d) gender differences. Findings suggest that both groups largely believe that bullying occurs in preschool. Excluding others from play, conditional threats, and the victim's perception of being bullied were the three conditions most likely to be associated with bullying. Parents were significantly more likely than workers to hold a negative view of bullies and believe that bullying differs with regard to gender. Whereas most participants felt that bullying coul…

Social PsychologyAggressionmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciences050301 educationContext (language use)Peer relationshipsPediatricsDevelopmental psychologyLikert scalePerceptionDevelopmental and Educational Psychologymedicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesStatistical analysismedicine.symptomPsychology0503 educationSocial psychology050104 developmental & child psychologymedia_commonEarly Child Development and Care
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Collaborative argumentation through role-play by students on a degree programme in social services

2019

The aim of this study was to investigate the nature of collaborative argumentation by students enrolled in a degree program in social services. Students (n = 29) in a University of Applied Sciences participated in role-play discussions and problem solving on adolescents’ substance abuse. The discussions were conducted either online (15 students) or face-to-face (14 students). The data comprise the students’ asynchronous online and face-to-face discussions, which were analysed by identifying discussion fragments relevant in collaborative argumentation, and by comparing the results of the two groups. The results showed that the face-to-face discussions were more collaborative than the online …

Social Welfaresocial work educationEducationArgumentation theory03 medical and health sciencescollaborative argumentationkeskustelustatistical analysisSocial work educationDegree programMathematics educationComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONStatistical analysiskorkeakoulupedagogiikka030504 nursing05 social sciencesill-structured problems050301 educationsosiaalityöntekijätDegree (music)sosiaalityöargumentointirole-play0305 other medical sciencePsychology0503 educationSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)
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La docencia de Estadística en el Grado de Psicología: una experiencia de colaboración interdisciplinar con la asignatura de Psicología Social del Tra…

2011

Se presenta una experiencia de innovación docente fundamentada en la colaboración interdisciplinar entre los estudiantes y profesores de dos asignaturas de la titulación de Psicología de la Universitat de València: Estadística y Psicología Social del Trabajo. De acuerdo a la valoración de los propios estudiantes y de los profesores, esta experiencia ha tenido un efecto positivo en el aprendizaje de los contenidos de ambas asignaturas, a la vez que un importante papel motivador para los estudiantes, estimulándoles a valorar la estadística como una parte integral del proceso de investigación y como un elemento importante de su formación.

Social psychology (sociology)Research processlcsh:Education (General)Innovative teachingenseñanza de la estadísticadatos reales.interdisciplinariedadComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONAcademic Trainingaprendizaje colaborativoStatistical analysislcsh:Llcsh:L7-991PsychologyHumanitieslcsh:Education@tic. revista d'innovació educativa
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RANKING DECISION MAKING UNITS BY MEANS OF SOFT COMPUTING DEA MODELS

2011

This paper presents a method for ranking a set of decision making units according to their level of efficiency and which takes into account uncertainty in the data. Efficiency is analysed using fuzzy DEA techniques and the ranking is based on the statistical analysis of cases that include representative situations. The method enables the removal of the sometimes unrealistic hypothesis of a perfect trade-off between increased inputs and outputs. This model is compared with other DEA models that work with imprecise or fuzzy data. As an illustration, we apply our ranking method to the evaluation of a group of Spanish seaports, as well as teams playing in the Spanish football league. We compar…

Soft computingComputer sciencebusiness.industryFootballMachine learningcomputer.software_genreFuzzy logicSet (abstract data type)Fuzzy dataRankingArtificial IntelligenceControl and Systems EngineeringStatistical analysisArtificial intelligencebusinesscomputerSoftwareInformation SystemsInternational Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems
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Insights from Operator Interviews

2009

The previous section analysed use of software to improve productivity from a general perspective and provided a quick statistical analysis of software usage to the performance of a CSP. Before conducting elaborated statistical analysis on CSP software usage, we need to gain some insight into operator business and understanding on how operators see the role of software in their business as well as how they acquire software.

Software usageOperator (computer programming)SoftwareApplication service provisionbusiness.industryComputer scienceSoftware developmentStatistical analysisbusinessSoftware engineeringProductivity
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Multispectral colour analysis for quantitative evaluation of pseudoisochromatic color deficiency tests

2010

Multispectral color analysis was used for spectral scanning of Ishihara and Rabkin color deficiency test book images. It was done using tunable liquid-crystal LC filters built in the Nuance II analyzer. Multispectral analysis keeps both, information on spatial content of tests and on spectral content. Images were taken in the range of 420-720nm with a 10nm step. We calculated retina neural activity charts taking into account cone sensitivity functions, and processed charts in order to find the visibility of latent symbols in color deficiency plates using cross-correlation technique. In such way the quantitative measure is found for each of diagnostics plate for three different color deficie…

Spectrum analyzerColor qualityGeographyCross-correlationbusiness.industryContent (measure theory)Multispectral imageColor analysisComputer visionStatistical analysisArtificial intelligencebusinessColorimetrySPIE Proceedings
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Dynamic aphasia and the generation of language

2004

Severely reduced propositional speech in the context of intact nominal language skills (i.e., repetition, naming, comprehension, and reading) is the hallmark of dynamic aphasia (Luria, 1970). Recent evidence suggests there may be different types of dynamic aphasia as some patients do not produce any response on verbal generation tasks, whilst others are able to perform normally on verbal genera- tion tasks. For example, Robinson and colleagues (Robinson, Blair, & Cipolotti, 1998; Robinson, Shallice, & Cipolotti, 2004) reported two dynamic aphasics who failed to produce a verbal response when many verbal response options were activated by a stimulus, but not when a dominant response was avai…

Speech and HearingLinguistics and LanguageSettore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia E Psicologia FisiologicaCognitive NeuroscienceAphasiacorrelation analysis dynamic aphasia human intermethod comparison interview language scoring system speech speech articulationstatistical analysismedicineExperimental and Cognitive Psychologymedicine.symptomPsychologyLanguage and LinguisticsCognitive psychology
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A degradation study of XVIII century graffiti on the walls of Chiaramonte Palace (Palermo, Italy)

2009

Statistical AnalysisXRFCultural HeritageSettore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali Ambientali Biol.e Medicin)
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